Bibliograph

Leaving Russia:, a Jewish story, Maxim D. Shrayer

Type

Label

Leaving Russia:, a Jewish story, Maxim D. Shrayer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leaving Russia:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Maxim D. Shrayer

Series statement

Library of Modern Jewish Literature

Sub title

a Jewish story

Summary

A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB's persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War

Target audience

adult

Classification